CHAPTER 10 2 _Christ disputeth with the Pharisees touching divorcement_ : 13 _blesseth the children that are brought unto him_ : 17 _resolveth a rich man how he may inherit life everlasting_ : 23 _telleth his disciples of the danger of riches_ : 28 _promiseth rewards to them that forsake anything fo... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Jesus regarding him_, with a benignant and pleasant countenance, _loved him_, showed him marks of His love, taking his hand and smiling upon him, embracing and kissing him. _One thing is wanting unto thee_, namely, for the perfection of a holy and evangelical life. _Follow Me._ The Greek adds... [ Continue Reading ]
_Or be baptised with the baptism wherewith I am baptized._ Christ calls His Passion a _baptism_, because He was to be evidently immersed and drowned in it, according to what David says of himself, but much more of Christ (Psa 69:12), "Save me, 0 God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink i... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye know that they who seem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them._ Gr. _κατακυριεύουσιν αυ̉τω̃ν_, i.e, _dominate over them_, or _against them._ For _who seem_, the Gr. is _οί δοκου̃ντες_, i.e., _who please themselves_, _and rejoice in ruling._ For none rule more imperiously and harshly than t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bartimæus_, _the son of Timæus._ This blind man, then, was called by a proper name, _Bartimæus_, _i.e._, the son of Timæus, as Bartholomew is the same as son of Ptolemy. The same was called also by the same name as his father Timæus. Timæus was the name of that Pythagorean philosopher who wrote the... [ Continue Reading ]